Advertising

Creature/VCCP - Mission Foods
Mission Foods in Europe has handed its creative account to Creature of London and media to VCCP Media after a competitive pitch. Creature of London won out in a competitive pitch run through AAR over Isobel and George &...

Advertising

Piccadilly Lights, the world’s number one advertising location in London’s West End, is looking set to undergo a significant transformation. Ocean Outdoor has won the contract to operate the central London landmark as part of a milestone upgrade...

Advertising

Whilst it might not have gathered as much media coverage as other campaigns, Lidl's Christmas Turkey has been found to be 2016's most powerful Christmas TV spot according to research carried out by Kantar Millward Brown. It tested 19 of this year's...

Advertising

Usually we would have included this PSA as part of our Ads of the Week piece, but this work was so powerful and so well put together that we thought it deserved a deeper examination. This is a spot that has been gathering quite a lot of attention on...

Advertising

Brothers and Sisters - Carphone Warehouse
This Christmas, Carphone Warehouse plans to let the nation know that literally everyone can come through its doors and find the best possible deal. Rather than creating some lofty, emotional Christmas ad,...

Economy

Whilst it might seem a little mean spirited for the festive season, we can never say no to a bit of delicious satire, so we were thrilled to hear that mcgarrybowen had created a set of Brexit-themed crackers for the Guardian. Aimed at putting a...

Advertising

OK, that headline might come across as a little bit clickbaity, but it's a pretty shocking statement that is not only true, but indicative of the way celebrity culture has managed to integrate itself within the advertising industry. Matthew...

Advertising

Samsung and Cheil London have devised the “Gear S3 World Choir” event, which brings together 24 choirs from 24 different countries to perform every day of the festive season in Piccadilly Circus on the UK’s first biometric stage, which is...

Advertising

Cheil Worldwide has created a golf-themed children’s book to help teach the virtues of life. The book will be used in an educational program called “Golf Daddy Class,” which is sponsored by Korean golf distributor Orient Golf. The program and...

Advertising

Channel 4 and ENVY Advertising have launched a series of vibrant and varied spots as the final instalment of the broadcaster’s “Voices of 4” campaign. Created by 4creative, Channel 4’s award-winning in-house creative agency, the campaign in...

Video Games

I love gaming and, whilst I'm not particularly keen on Christmas itself, I love Christmas lights, so this latest bold activation by Xbox for their recently released Dead Rising 4 game certainly hit my buttons when it popped up in my news feeds last...

Features

I recently met a girl who worked in marketing at one of the UK’s leading charities. They’d just put out a great ad - simple, emotive, affecting - so I congratulated her on the work.
‘Well’, she said, ‘I don’t see...

Advertising

UNICEF has released a powerful and creative new film featuring UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham, which calls for an end to violence against children. Executed by animation and production studio, BlindPig, sister company of Absolute Post, the...

Advertising

A brilliantly bizarre new interactive installation in London’s Old Street is encouraging passers-by to keep the spirit of Christmas alive (quite literally) and focus on all the good feeling in the world. The activation is based around...

Technology

Amazon Go store allows you to literally pick up things and leave with them
Amazon has launched a physical shop where people can literally just pick up things up and leave with them. Amazon Go uses a range of technologies to watch over people and see...

Design

The winner of the ever controversial Turner Prize was announced yesterday (December 5), with 31-year-old painter and sculptor Helen Marten claiming the 2016 prize. The youngest of the four shortlisted artists, Marten, who graduated from...

News

Nice Shoes Creative Studio has entered the exciting world of Virtual Reality, debuting an immersive and interactive meditative experience "Mio Garden" to a delighted audience of marketing leaders at the 2016 ANA Masters of Marketing Conference in...

Trends

Museums around the world welcome millions of visitors each year, accounting for a $192 billion dollar industry in the U.S. alone. But with the Millennial generation already surpassing Baby Boomers by the millions, and Gen-Z projected to make up 25%...

Features

A roundup of the most important news of the week in the advertising awards world.
Eurobest
The Eurobest 2016 were held this week in Rome (Italy).
Two new categories were introduced this year: Digital Craft and Creative Data. Also, the Branded...

Entertainment

Hidden Cities: Dublin, the latest immersive project from Visualise for The Financial Times, in collaboration with Google, has launched for December 2016.
The 3D 360° documentary, titled ‘Dublin in the Dark: The Story of Emerald...

Inspiration

In the last year, Casper have claimed a spot in Time’s Best 25 Inventions of 2015, won a Big Innovation Award, been finalists of a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, and bagged a spot on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. These aren’t...

Inspiration

Based in South Tyrol, a very curious area of Northern Italy located right next to the country’s border with Austria, where the majority of residents speak German despite their Italian nationality, Studio Mut is used to looking at the world a little...

Design

Young & Laramore - Upland Brewing Company
Upland Brewing Company have announced a refreshed packaging and ad campaign for their renowned Sour Ales, which are made with wild yeast and have recently emerged from the beer geek underground and become an...

Design

Stackable football pitches could be erected on disused or temporarily empty plots across London, according to Amanda Levete and her London-based studio AL_A. The concept, named “Pitch/Pitch,” aims to tackle the shortage of inner-city sports...

Advertising

Cawley Nea\TBWA has rebranded as TBWA\Dublin, marking a bold new chapter in the company’s development. The move is intended to better reflect the “Re-founders” culture at the heart of the agency, which acknowledges the process of creative...

Design

Amongst my friends and family members, I've become known as something of a Scrooge when it comes to everything festive. Long gone are the days when the opening chords of “Merry Christmas Everyone” would ignite an ember of longing in my...

Design

When D&AD announced its New Blood Shift programme back in April this year, they did so with one priority. In their own words, they wished “To test a belief that success shouldn’t be about who you are, where you’re from, or who you...

Social Media

Facebook announced this week that their Creative Hub will be available for the entire industry to use worldwide. Facebook is also introducing a new Inspiration Gallery that will showcase examples of outstanding mobile creative across Facebook and...

Advertising

Liquid - Haymarket Media Group
Haymarket Media Group has announced that creative agency Liquid, have been appointed as the creative and strategic partner for the British Style Collective 2017, presented by The Clothes Show. Following a competitive...

Advertising

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
Sarah Golding, CEO and Partner of CHI & Partners, was today nominated by IPA Council members as the preferred candidate to succeed Tom Knox as President of the IPA in March 2017. Golding will be...

Advertising

Accenture has acquired Karmarama, one of the UK’s largest independent agencies renowned for blending creativity, digital and data to develop campaigns that help brands better engage with consumers. The acquisition strengthens the ability of...

Features

Brands, politicians and communicators need to break the anger cycle that fuelled Brexit and brought Trump to the White House to successfully engage the public, BMB’s top team has warned. At the Eurobest festival in Rome yesterday (Wednesday,...

Advertising

GroupM, the media investment management group of WPP, recently announced the global launch of [m]PLATFORM; an advanced technology suite of flexible media planning applications, data analytics and digital services. The platform will improve...

Advertising

BETC Paris - CANAL
The French TV networks CANAL+ and CANALSAT recently united their forces in order to become one giant television destination: CANAL. To celebrate this holy union, the new entity asked BETC Paris to create a spectacular commercial...

Video Games

Video games and theme parks are two of my lifelong passions, so to say that the concept of the two coming together would something of a dream come true for yours truly might actually be an understatement. As if taking a page directly from the dream...

Technology

In collaboration with Surf Life Saving Australia, Samsung Electronics Australia recently launched and piloted an Augmented Reality (AR) mobile app developed with Leo Burnett Sydney, which uses technology to help raise awareness of the number one...